| Rarity | Type | Base Stats | Price | Unlock |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Outworld | Attack: 1060
Health: 950 Toughness: 850 Recovery: 1000 Power Gen: 100% |
450 Souls | Challenge Mode, Challenge Pack, Elite Outworld Pack |
Gunslinger Erron Black is a powerful force of nature. With decently high attack, a powerful passive and when coupled with the right talents and equipment, Erron Black can lay waste to his enemies at the drop of a hat.
Strategy[]
While Gunslinger Erron has high attack and recovery, he also has low health and toughness, making him a glass cannon.
His SP1, Sand Slide, is easily cancelled when blocked. As such, it should always be used during a unblocked basic combo.
His true, immense strength lies within his SP2, as not only does it inflict shield break but achieving 80%+ on its mini-game will cause it to become unblockable and automatically crit, inflicting very heavy damage to his enemy. This becomes even deadlier against Spec Ops enemies, as he gains extra attack when facing against them, possibly ignoring their toughness and dealing more damage. Previously, it used to be considered as always unblockable and crit whenever his passive activates, and as such it ignores effects that reduce unblockable and crit chance. As of now however, it simply has 100% chance to crit and break block instead, and would therefore be affected by reduction effects.
Due to Erron's powerful SP2, it is recommended to gear him with equipment that boosts his power generation, reduce the special attack cost and/or increase his crit damage. As it can already auto-crit whenever his passive activates, critical hit chance is not required.
If players want to utilise his SP2 more frequently, the Soul Medallion is an ideal choice as it can boost his power gen while also halving the cost of his SP2 at the same time. Note that the cost reduction doesn't and cannot go higher than 50%.
If players want to instead focus on his crit damage, the Lin Kuei Tutorage talent as well as equipment such as the Jiaozi and Bayonet can increase his critical damage exponentially.
With the introduction of tower equipment, where most of them provide unique effects upon critting, Erron Black has since become a go-to choice for wielding them.
Interactions[]
Please note that battles are highly situational: this section only mentions cards that have mechanics that, for any reason, are particularly effective with/against, or particularly ineffective against Erron Black. Having a card that "counters" Erron Black does not mean it is always a good choice.
Good With[]
- Executioner Axe: With the Executioner Axe, Erron Black can deal an additional 35% damage against Spec Ops and 30% Basic Attack Boost, with a total 95% damage on basic attacks against Spec Ops at Fusion X.
- Kotal Kahn/Sun God & Reptile/Nimble: Erron Black gains 30% Attack from Kotal Kahn and 30% Health from Reptile.
- Kitana/Mournful, Ermac/Master of Souls, Wrath Hammer & Bloody Tomahawk: Most of these supports will give Erron Black 1 Bar of Power. Because Erron Black is an Outworld character, he will also help Ermac start with X-Ray while also teamed up with Kitana.
Good Against[]
- Spec Ops Characters.
- Kenshi/Ronin, Noob Saibot/MK11, Kintaro/Shokan Warrior & Jax Briggs/Klassic: Part of these characters' passive relies on blocking special attacks, which Erron's special attack 2 can counter that.
Countered By[]
- Challenge Bosses: Some Bosses including Kung Jin/Marksman are immune to unblockable attacks.
- Cassie Cage/Undercover: An unorthodox counter as Cassie Cage deals extra damage against Outworld and Netherrealm and Erron Black deals more damage back to Cassie Cage because she is a Spec Ops character.
- Kenshi/Elder God, Kitana/Assassin, & Scorpion/Hellspawn: All of these characters are immune to the critical hits on Erron Black's unblockable Special Attack 2, with Kenshi spreading this to Elder God teammates.
- Kitana/Ronin, Katana & Champion's Nunchaku: These character and equipments can also deal more damage against Outworld characters including Erron Black.
- Jade/Assassin: Jade can evade Erron Black's specials and combo enders, punishing him even further with an unblockable cripple.
- Jason Voorhees/Nightmare: Jason can evade Erron Black's specials and stun him.
- Liu Kang/Klassic: While Erron Black doesn't necessarily deal DOTs or Power Drain, Liu Kang's crippling tag outs can prevent Erron Black from launching his deadly Special Attack 2 for a short time. This will not stop him from using an X-Ray, though.
- Quan Chi/Circle of Shadow: Quan Chi can reflect the damage of Erron Black’s special attacks, lowering his health majorly with the reflect damage.
- Skarlet/Kold War: Same with Circle of Shadow Quan Chi but with lesser extent.
- Centaurian Defense Talent: Erron Black's unblockable SP2 damage can be reflected to him against this talent.
Abilities[]
Here are Erron Black's abilities.
| Ability | Classification | Description | Usage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gunslinger | Passive | +30% attack vs Spec Ops. Achieving 80%+ on Stand Off (Special Attack 2) makes it unblockable and a critical hit. | Always Active |
| Sand Slide | First Special | Medium Damage | Target |
| Stand Off | Second Special | High Damage + Shield Break | Target |
| Trick Shot | X-Ray | Extreme Damage + Luck | Tap |
Support Cards/Equipment[]
Here are Erron Black's support and equipment cards.
Stats[]
These stats are the final damage, health, toughness and recovery at level 50, per Fusion rank, with ALL support cards, and without any equipment. With Update 1.18, Fusion 8, 9, and 10 have been added. The Fusion 10 stats are for level 60 characters.
| Rank | Attack | Health | Toughness | Recovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | 8,177 | 13,646 | 4,930 | 18,560 |
| Fusion I | 12,265 | 20,469 | 7,395 | 27,840 |
| Fusion II | 16,353 | 27,292 | 9,860 | 37,120 |
| Fusion III | 20,443 | 34,115 | 12,325 | 46,400 |
| Fusion IV | 24,531 | 40,937 | 14,790 | 55,680 |
| Fusion V | 28,619 | 47,761 | 17,255 | 64,960 |
| Fusion VI | 32,708 | 54,583 | 19,720 | 74,240 |
| Fusion VII | 36,796 | 61,407 | 22,185 | 83,520 |
| Fusion VIII | 40,884 | 68,229 | 24,650 | 92,800 |
| Fusion IX | 44,974 | 75,052 | 27,115 | 102,080 |
| Fusion X | 53,290 | 97,037 | 32,130 | 120,960 |
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- There is a glitch that happens whenever you use Day of the Dead Jade against BOSS Gunslinger Erron Black: When Jade's Ghost Shield is up and Erron Black shoots his Death Bullet, Jade survives and then every other character as well as Day of the Dead Jade herself can survive the extra Death Bullets. This glitch was recorded in this video by Elephant Ninja: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IoPItpvbYU
- Prior to Update 2.0, he costed 355 souls.
- For unknown reason, his challenge never appeared since Update 2.0.